Eclectic new one year old Chicago dance company, Instruments of Movement desires to say something new through movement..." We're instruments of movement- we have no boundaries."

-Lucia Mauro, Chicago Tribune - January 10, 2002

Instruments of Movement Artistic Director, James Morrow, premieres his new piece "Right as Rain"... Performed in three parts, the piece illustrates the power of story-telling as the pages of a book come to life in the mind of a child... the story of a community that evolves through knowledge.. it juggles abstraction, fantasy and literalism.

-Rohit Mahajan, Press Publications - June 6, 2003

Phenomenal... Raw... A bit of street funk!

-Robert Loerzel, Oak Leaves - January 8, 2003

Gang of amazons... Whimsical... Especially evocative...

-Laura Molzahn, Chicago Reader Critic's Choice - January 10, 2003

Contemporary... Fusion... Crosses all genres of dance... The work is pleasing to dancers and non dancers alike.

-Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth, Chicago Dance Gazette - May, 2003

Thank God there always seem to be young dancer-choreographers to fill in the ranks thinned by minuscule budgets and flagging aspirations...Yearning...Provocative...

-Laura Molzahn, Chicago Reader Critic's Choice - January, 2001

Sublime... Stylistically diverse and yet linked... Clean, abstract dance, grounded in classical form but frequently peppered with all varieties of modern moves... Morrow chooses his choreographers with the confidence of a curator...

-Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune - June 9, 2003

The Jesus Christ Superstar of the 21 st Century...easily recognizable scenes, though on the the pieces charms is the way they are turned on their heads...

-Laura Molzahn, Chicago Reader Critic's Choice - March 6, 2004

Instruments of Movement uses an eclectic mix of music and dance styles to explore --- well, whatever the company feels like... Morrow's duet "The Flapper and the Quarterback" is based on a 1926 Ruth Page dance of the same title...play by play commentary by an unseen announcer adds to the humor of this slight, good-natured piece...Ziemba's "Illustration 1"...danced only by women, whose slow, deliberate, almost anguished motions are inescapably sexy.

-Laura Molzahn, Chicago Reader Critic's Choice - January 27, 2005